Director, Procurement Ops — AI-Driven Excellence

National Geographic; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 162,000 - 203,000; Full time

Job summary

DraftKings in Boston seeks a Director of Procurement Operations to lead the Procurement Operations team, owning the end-to-end operating model, tooling, and governance across source-to-pay processes. You will drive process redesign, automation, and AI initiatives to reduce manual work and improve data quality, enabling procurement to deliver greater business value.

The role requires 10+ years in procurement, strong leadership, and a track record of scaling operating models and cross-functional

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Finance, Economics, Supply Chain, Information Systems, or a related field.
• 10+ years of experience in procurement, procurement operations, source-to-pay, transformation, or a related function.
• Demonstrated experience leading teams and developing Procurement professionals in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.
• Proven success designing and scaling procurement operating models, processes, service levels, governance, and cross-functional workflows.
• Hands-on expertise with source-to-pay, eProcurement, intake orchestration, contract lifecycle management, supplier management, and analytics platforms; Coupa experience is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop the Procurement Operations team, setting clear service expectations and fostering a high-performance culture.
• Own the enterprise Procurement operating model including intake, triage, workflow design, sourcing support, contracting coordination, purchasing, supplier onboarding, and performance reporting.
• Define clear roles, decision rights, service levels, escalation paths, and cross-functional handoffs to ensure a consistent stakeholder experience.
• Own the Procurement technology roadmap and administration of source-to-pay, intake orchestration, contract lifecycle management, supplier management, analytics, and knowledge-management solutions.
• Lead process redesign, automation, and AI-enabled initiatives that reduce manual work, improve cycle time and data quality, strengthen controls, and allow Procurement teams to focus on higher-value activities.
• Establish enterprise standards for procurement data, taxonomy, savings and value measurement, pipeline management, reporting, dashboards, and executive performance reviews.
• Own Procurement reporting, analytics, and insights, translating spend, sourcing pipeline, savings, supplier, cycle-time, and service-performance data into actionable recommendations.
• Maintain Procurement policies, procedures, templates, playbooks, training, and communications while overseeing capacity, service performance, adoption, and organizational change management.
• Partner with Finance, Legal, Information Security, Privacy, Compliance, IT, and Procurement category teams to integrate requirements and provide reliable operational support.

Skills

Procurement ops

Source-to-Pay

Leadership

Automation

AI in procurement

Data analytics

Contract lifecycle

Supplier management

Governance

Cross-functional

Change management

Spend analytics

Executive dashboards

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Finance, Economics, Supply Chain, Information Systems, or a related field

Tools

Coupa

Job description

DraftKings in Boston seeks a Director of Procurement Operations to lead the Procurement Operations team, owning the end-to-end operating model, tooling, and governance across source-to-pay processes. You will drive process redesign, automation, and AI initiatives to reduce manual work and improve data quality, enabling procurement to deliver greater business value.

The role requires 10+ years in procurement, strong leadership, and a track record of scaling operating models and cross-functional